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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The first female and first African president of the IOC, Kirsty Coventry, was inaugurated in the role Monday on the organization’s 131st birthday with praise that the Olympic movement was “in the best of hands.”Coventry, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in swimming for Zimbabwe, finally and formally takes office Tuesday aged just 41 after decisively winning a seven-candidate election in March to succeed Thomas Bach.Coventry cited her family including her two young daughters as “my rocks, my inspiration” to lead the International Olympic Committee through the next eight years including the 2028 Summer Games in Los…
BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) — Formula 1 rookie Kimi Antonelli passed his final exams to graduate from high school back home in Italy just like he’s been passing other cars on tracks around the world: without trouble.The 18-year-old Mercedes driver made the announcement in an Instagram story Monday, saying “promosso” — “passed” — with a photo of himself wearing a laurel wreath.After claiming his first podium result with a third-place finish at the Canadian Grand Prix, Antonelli returned home to Casalecchio di Reno, near Bologna, to take his exams.“I was fairly stressed, because I didn’t have much time to study. But…
OpenAI’s cofounder said vibe coding has left human engineers to do quality control.On an episode of Stripe’s “Cheeky Pint” podcast uploaded last week, OpenAI’s cofounder and president, Greg Brockman, said that AI coding will only get better. But until then, it’s taking away some parts of software engineering that he said are enjoyable.”What we’re going to see is AIs taking more and more of the drudgery, more of this like pain, more of the parts that are not very fun for humans,” Brockman said. He added, “So far, the vibe coding has actually taken a lot of code that is…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The promise came three years ago from Oklahoma City general manager Sam Presti. It might have been overlooked for a couple of reasons. One, the Thunder were awful at the time. Two, he was speaking Latin.“Labor omnia vincit,” Presti said after the 2021-22 season, quoting a motto of Oklahoma. Depending on how Presti was translating it, it could have been “hard work conquers all” or “slow work conquers all.”Either way, it applies to the Thunder. They did hard work. They did slow work.They conquered all.The Thunder — three years removed from winning 24 games — won…
VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — One day last fall, Ray Woodfork found himself being challenged to a fight by a fellow inmate half his age on the grounds of Solano State Prison.Woodfork would have been tempted not so long ago. The Golden State Warriors have helped turn him toward a different way of thinking.This time, the once-aspiring college basketball player, who was serving as referee for the prison football league that day, immediately made it clear he had no interest in an altercation. Woodfork said he chose to walk away and return to his dorm.He acknowledges had he fought there’s no…
Some lawyers continue to fall for made-up cases generated by artificial intelligence. Others are quietly finding ways to make the technology work for them.Joseph McMullen, a San Diego civil rights and criminal defense attorney, is one of them. Last year, he said, he used AI-powered legal software to help him win a major case by sifting through evidence and making his filings more persuasive.The case that led McMullen to rethink his tools started with a 9-year-old girl, a passport photo, and a border agent who thought something didn’t add up.In 2019, Julia, a fourth grader, and her 14-year-old brother, Oscar,…
Turns out “i” and “o” make for a popular combination of vowels in the tech industry.Sam Altman’s OpenAI launched a very public partnership with io, the company owned by famed Apple designer Jony Ive, in May. The announcement included a splashy video and photos of the two of them looking like old friends.On Sunday, however, OpenAI scrubbed any mention of that partnership from its website and social media.That’s because iyO, a startup spun out of Google’s moonshot factory, X, and which sounds like io, is suing OpenAI, io, Altman, and Ive for trademark infringement.iyO’s latest product, iyO ONE, is an…
OpenAI has pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altman’s device startup io) from its website and YouTube page. Does that suggest something is amiss with the acquisition, or with plans for Ive to lead design work at OpenAI? Not exactly, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who reports that the “deal is on track and has NOT dissolved or anything of the sort.” Instead, he said a judge has issued a restraining order over the io name, forcing the company…
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Indiana star Tyrese Haliburton was starting a move toward the basket, and his right leg didn’t seem to move with him.And the ensuing scene was heartbreaking for the Pacers.Haliburton — who was playing with a strained right calf — tumbled to the court in a heap, immediately began punching the floor in frustration and needed to be helped to the locker room in Game 7 of the NBA Finals against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday night.John Haliburton, Tyrese’s father, told ABC it was an Achilles tendon injury. An MRI is still likely to confirm that,…
Pavel Durov was born in St. Petersburg in Soviet Russia.The tech entrepreneur cofounded the encrypted messaging service Telegram with his brother Nikolai in 2013. The brothers were born into a family of intellectuals, according to a biography on the Digital-Life-Design Conference website. Durov spoke at the conference in January 2012.Durov is now worth $17.1 billion, according to Forbes. Much of his fortune comes from Telegram, which he said hit 1 billion users in March 2025.”Ahead of us stands WhatsApp — a cheap, watered-down imitation of Telegram,” Durov wrote in a post on his Telegram channel announcing the news. “For years,…